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Knife to a Gunfight, Part 2

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Manchester United boss David Moyes says his team do not have sufficient class to win the Champions League this season.

United have lost three of their opening six games in the Barclays Premier League under Moyes, with the latest setback coming in a 2-1 home defeat to West Brom at Old Trafford on Saturday.

The Premier League champions were unsuccessful in their pursuit of a number of summer transfer targets, with interest in Cesc Fabregas, Leighton Baines and, finally, Ander Herrera all coming to nothing, and Moyes is concerned that his squad may lack the quality to challenge for Europe's top club prize.

"To win the Champions League, you need five or six world-class players," he told several national newspapers.

"Look at Bayern Munich, they have it. Look at Barcelona, who had it in the past and Real Madrid, who have maybe got it now. That's the level you have to be at to win it. We've not got that yet but what we have got is experience."

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Has he not worked out yet that he's at the biggest club in the country

Massive beaut who is getting found out a little bit more every week

They will get beaten on Wed as well
 
Everything I knew or suspected about him at Everton is being magnified by a hundred at United.

It's hilarious too after the way he talked down to us like some sort of messiah when he left, the clown.
 
Playing down expectations already. He had a job getting away with that here, can't see United liking that, even if he is ultimately right that they have no hope of winning the CL.

At this stage they don't look like they have much hope of winning the PL either, which must be more worrying. They had a pretty poor squad last year and you sense they won as much because everyone else screwed up enough to allow RVP to drag them home.

The way Chelsea and City have started you wonder if the same won't happen this year too. It's weird, what with all their money and all, but the top 4-6 now are all fairly similar, and all sit below the very best teams in Europe.
 

Very funny how many pathetic excuses he's come out with after only a handful of matches. That's it Davie keep trying to lower expectations and spread the gift of mediocrity, its what you do best after all!
 
Fantastic stuff DM, perhaps if you had actually bought some players instead if being a minge with a near unlimited transfer budget you would have those players. Tit.
 
It was always going to take him a while to bed in at United after 11 years doing a completely different job in every way. He's not wrong there either, tbh. At least it's not his squad of players he's moaning about. We all knew Sir Alex had left him a lot of sh*te in that dressing room. He was the difference last year, along with the poor form of City and Chelsea. The footballing world wants to overlook these things and many more for its own entertainment atm, which is fair enough as he's fair game, being the manager of United now. Doesn't make it reasonable though.

The one thing I expect Moyes to do at United is bring those top class players in every transfer window if the board back him properly, which it appears they weren't doing, in the summer. Being able to then hold on to those players and make the squad his own will help him. If United give him a while to get used to the job, they'll be back up there soon with a better squad imo.
 

It actually doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong (he IS certainly right by the way), it's just something you do not say at the reigning champions of England and a club of that size and history. He should be aiming to achieve everything possible, not giving up the ghost before a ball is kicked in anger in any given competition.

It's an attempt to do his usual - play down expectations to hide his own limitations.
 
Good vote of confidence for the players. Evra, Vidic, Ferdinand, Carrick, Rooney, Giggs, Nani - sorry lads, I know you've won it before, but you just haven't got it anymore.

Not like RVP is the best striker in the world or anything either, when he comes up against all those top class Champions League level defences he'll be helpless.
 
Liverpool won this in recent times with a team that had Alonso and Gerrard and not much else.

The feller cant help himself. His default setting is modest ambition. How United employed this clown remains one of the biggest football puzzles in recent times.
 

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